Summoning Total War

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The New Year’s celebration came to an end, and Murphy’s goal has been achieved. He invited many aboriginal aristocrats to come, not only to discuss the establishment of the Principality of Athens, but more importantly, to demonstrate their strength to these aboriginal aristocrats. Not only in the military, but also in Athens' economy, popularity, order, etc. At the same time it is warning them that it is better to give up the idea of ​​standing on the opposite side of Athens, because that is a dead end.

Strong strength can pave the way, with sufficient military power and economic wealth to support, the process of establishing the Principality of Athens is quite easy.

The prestige that Murphy has accumulated has been early and surpassed the predetermined standard. Therefore, when the alliance contract was officially signed, Murphy's attitude was unprecedentedly strong. There was no such thing as the aristocratic parliament. Many nobles clamored for benefits and satirized each other In the struggle, the ceremony for the establishment of the entire principality was quite simple, so Elizabeth took out twenty-six contracts and handed them to the nobles who joined the Principality of Athens.

There is no dispute over the distribution of rights, and no one dares to fight for more interests at this time.

When these aboriginal nobles signed their names under the contract and printed their family crests, the Principality of Athens was officially established. From now on, Murphy's name should also be added with the title of ‘My Lord’s Lord’. In this era, the Grand Duke is the title between the king and the duke. In terms of status, Murphy at this moment has surpassed the three dukes of the noble council.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Athens also announced the establishment of the Principality of Athens.

An uproar has risen across the southern plains* Although everyone had expected this in their hearts, when this moment really appeared, everyone still felt a little uneasy.

Because with the establishment of the Principality of Athens, the entire human city-state was divided into two.

The emergence of two regimes, the new and the old, completely means that the human city-states that have been unified for thousands of years have split. When the two regimes struggle for power, humanity is likely to enter a period of civil war that has not been seen in thousands of years. But similarly, some people of insight have also realized that the alternation of the old and the new regimes is a historical inevitability, and the rotten and corrupt aristocratic councils are declining, step by step withdrawing from the stage of history.

And a new and powerful kingdom has also been established centered on Athens

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Compared with the shock caused by the news, Athens seemed very happy.

The establishment of the Principality of Athens means that Athens has completely emerged from the human city state, and will no longer be constrained by the aristocratic council. This is a new regime that has nothing to do with the increasingly decaying aristocratic council. The citizens of Athens also have a new identity. They will no longer belong to the human city-state ruled by the aristocratic council, but the citizens of the Principality of Athens ruled by Murphy.

"Your Excellency" people are gradually becoming familiar with this new name.

About the third day after the announcement of the establishment of the Principality of Athens, the half-elves also announced the news. The first is that the half-elves will form an alliance with the Principality of Athens and develop trade and military alliances. The second is to announce. [Oath-Sword of Victory] Murphy already belongs to it. This is undoubtedly officially covering Murphy's legendary glory.

Regarding the announcement of the human city-state in Athens so quickly, the aristocratic council obviously did not expect it. After the initial panic, the three grand dukes urgently mobilized a group of troops to stay outside the border of the Principality of Athens to prevent Murphy from suddenly attacking humanity. Internal wars over power. However, when the general situation has accumulated to this point, the cohesion within the aristocratic council has also been exhausted. Except for some large aristocrats who are unwilling to hand over their power, many small and medium aristocrats have the heart to move closer to the Principality of Athens.

They are just a few little nobles, except for the fief, they don't have much power.

The real power of the aristocratic council is in the hands of the three grand princes. Although small aristocrats like them have seats on the aristocratic council, they have no right to speak. The battle of the noble council is more between the three princes. And they just choose a different position.

There is not much to have, and naturally there is less to lose.

These small and medium nobles have all inquired clearly. The nobles who were first incorporated into the Principality of Athens, in addition to retaining all the fiefs, also held many positions within the Principality. What they surrendered was only the power to govern the territory and the management of taxation. With these rights being surrendered, the defense of the natural territory does not need to be burdened, and the military expenditure for protecting the territory is also saved. Still, their wealth and status are still guaranteed.

Even if it is, they only have the power to rule the territory in name.

Although the tax is in their hands, a large part of the town’s income needs to be handed over to the aristocratic council to maintain the expenditure of the army. In this conversion, these small and medium aristocrats actually did not lose much, but they jumped from this camp to another. It's just one camp.

Therefore, many small and medium aristocrats have new ideas in their hearts.

And all this is what Murphy wants to achieve, which is to win over the middle and lower aristocrats and suppress the big aristocrats who hold real power.

Murphy could not completely emptied the aristocratic class of the aboriginal people at once, because in this era, the knowledge and power are basically from the aristocratic class, and ordinary poor people are not literate. They may be trained to become soldiers. But it is difficult to educate them into scholars, officials, and talents who manage urban affairs.

Therefore, Murphy must learn to accept these talents whether he wants to or not.

Because he can't do everything all over again

The only thing he can do is to build a new system, constrain them, and select excellent, useful and motivated people for their use. The real corruption of the noble council is the great nobles who have held power for too long. The small and medium nobles below are just drifting along with the crowd. As long as Murphy can correct the general trend, their talents can be used to manage millions of people in the future. , They also need their abilities.

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The contract between Murphy and these aboriginal nobles is the simplest to explain with an example.

For example, the lord of a town is a baron, and he has the nominal right to rule the town including the surrounding area, but the town belongs to the noble council. Although the council of nobles will not directly intervene in the management of this town, the lord of the town must pay part of the tax to the higher nobles, or the lord of a certain city to which this town belongs.

The baron of this town pays about half of the tax to the higher aristocrats in the city, and in return the town is protected by the city he belongs to. For example, the city is obliged to protect the town when it is attacked by bandits. Because it is difficult to maintain a standing army in a small town like this, at most there are only a small group of patrolling militias, and it is difficult to withstand robbers or foreign gangsters.

In fact, although the city will protect such small towns, when they arrive, the flowers will be grateful.

What really worked was the army in the hands of nobles everywhere.

Initially, the purpose of the noble councils of the human city-states was to assist each other in the offensive and defensive alliances, but with the passage of time, with the increasing greed of the great nobles, it gradually distorted into such a system of layers of exploitation. Therefore, in order to improve their strength, the nobles everywhere began to embezzle the wealth of the free people, causing many free people to become poor people and even serfs, which is simply land annexation.

The original city-state system has also become its current deformity.

In a town, although the nominal rule belongs to the lord, the lord does not control all the wealth. There are free people living in the town, ordinary civilians, and merchants. These people all own land, and these land also belong to them, although Nominally ruled by lords. The lord owns the largest share of the land in his territory, such as a fertile manor, but it cannot be his own.

And under the lord, there are canonized knights, under the knights there are followers, and under the followers are relatives.

The division of land is done in this way.

These aboriginal aristocrats who signed a contract with Murphy and joined the Principality of Athens, their manor, castle, mansion, and knight are reserved, but the guards that protect the town belong to Athens, and all other lands except the lord fief are also reserved. Under the name of the Principality of Athens, UU Reading www.uukahnshu.com and the free people, merchants, poor people, etc. in the towns have also become the citizens of the Principality of Athens from the aboriginal aristocrats.

In other words, they retain wealth and surrender the power of autonomy.

As for whether they can get a new position in the Principality of Athens, it depends on their own abilities.

Murphy's plan is to put all the cities and towns with autonomous power into the Principality of Athens, and initially complete his rule of the surrounding areas of Athens and form a centralized transformation. This method should not be excessive, beyond the scope of this era, so Murphy Keep the small-scale fiefs of these nobles, but the power must be concentrated in Athens in his hands.

As for any stumbling blocks that attempt to hinder him, Murphy does not mind using force to solve the problem.

In fact

What Murphy really wants is not the wealth of the aboriginal aristocrats, not the land in their hands, but the population under their name. The wealth they really hold is the free people, the poor, and the serfs. These precious populations are everything. Foundation

This is what Murphy really wants! ~!